The following picture of my ‘62 Fender Strat and Vox AC-30 was taken with a Canon EOS Rebel and edited at www.picnik.com by my favorite photographer, Leslie Brooke, using the theme “1960’s”.

What software or webtools do you use to edit photos?

U2 is the first band that I remember following as a young child. I was only four when Boy came out in 1980, five when October came out in 1981, but I distinctly remember stealing my mom’s War tape back in 1983 and playing it until it broke. I bought The Joshua Tree with my own money, which made my mother happy. Life since then has been one big anticipation after another as the albums have been released.

There’s no doubt that my interest peaked around Achtung Baby, as most of my favorites come from that album, through I’ve found enough great songs on each album to justify the purchase. In today’s single-song based world, we might be tempted to download just the songs that get radio, XM or Sirius airplay when we find them on iTunes. Not with U2. This band in particular demands the purchase of a cd in jewel case with the nicely printed liner notes. Their music deserves a listen from start to finish in order to fully embrace the labor of love produced by one of the best bands in (pop?) rock history.

You’ll find an iTunes iMix for my favorite U2 songs below. What’s missing? iTunes didn’t connect these tracks for the iMix, which is a shame since they share equal play time in my list:

• Sweetest Thing - The Best of 1980-1990
• Electrical Storm (William Orbit Remix) - The Best of 1990-2000
• Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - The Best of 1990-2000
• The Ground Beneath Her Feet - The Million Dollar Hotel

By the way, it appears that the iMix code doesn’t always work as Apple expects (surprise!), so you may not be able to click on the individual songs and be taken to iTunes. If you click on the artwork image it will open up the iMix within iTunes.

What are your favorite U2 songs?

The following is a response to the Skribit Suggestion brought to us by my friend Kenneth Searles:

Yep, this is my head:

This is my head in a JibJab:

Any questions?

You’ll never see 4 a.m. the same way again.

Could the Giacometti Code actually…be…real???

I followed Mark Lee’s example and set up Skribit in my sidebar. “What’s Skribit?” you ask.  Let’s say you visit my blog on a regular basis and you wish that I would blog more often, you get tired of me talking about the same thing every other week or you want me to talk about something that you know is going on in my life and want me to flesh out with more details…You can actually suggest topics for future blogs and make blogging more of a two-way conversation.

I do suggest that you setup an account with Skribit to ensure that I don’t get anonymous, crazy or spammed suggestions.  Please go ahead and give it a try and maybe I’ll start jumping on the suggestions today.

[ht: This Guy Falls Down]